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  Episode 1 | The Lost Mandate of Heaven

  Episode 1 | The Lost Mandate of Heaven

  Every American should read “The Lost Mandate of Heaven.” In 1963, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem (1901–1963)—a devout, charitable Catholic and possibly a saint—was assassinated by US-backed soldiers, sparking a decade of hideous war. Why did this happen? Geoffrey Shaw’s “The Lost Mandat...

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  Episode 2 | The Lost Mandate of Heaven

  Episode 2 | The Lost Mandate of Heaven

  In this episode, Fr. Fessio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce discuss Geoffrey Shaw’s introduction (pages 23–40) to “The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam.”

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  Episode 3 | The Lost Mandate of Heaven

  Episode 3 | The Lost Mandate of Heaven

  Chapter 1 of “The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam” by Geoffrey Shaw, discussed by Fr. Fessio, Joseph Pearce, and Vivian Dudro.